1. Ryan North is the creator and author of Dinosaur Comics, and has written for the comic series of Adventure Time and Marvel Comics' The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl and Fantastic Four.
17 Facts About Ryan North
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Ryan North's works have won multiple Eisner Awards and Harvey Awards and made New York Times Bestseller lists.
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Ryan North was the writer of the Adventure Time comic book series from 2012 to 2014.
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Ryan North has written for several Marvel Comics series, including The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, Power Pack, and Inhumans: Once and Future Kings.
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On July 21,2017, two of Ryan North's projects were awarded Eisner Awards: "Best Publication for Teens " for The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl, and "Best Humor Publication" for Jughead.
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On September 15,2020, Archaia published a graphic novel adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, which was adapted by Ryan North and illustrated by Albert Monteys.
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In July 2022, Ryan North announced two upcoming comics projects via his newsletter.
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In November 2022, Ryan North launched a new volume of Fantastic Four with artist Iban Coello.
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In October 2024, at New York Comic Con, it was announced that Ryan North was heading up Marvel's 2025 event One World Under Doom.
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Ryan North created three tools to aid webcomic authors: Oh No Robot, a webcomic transcription tool that creates searchable text databases for comics; RSSpect, a method of creating RSS feeds for websites; and Project Wonderful, a pay-per-day auction-based ad serving system.
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Some of North's original comedy writing appears on the website Madhouse, including Robot Erotica, and prank emails such as attempts to stop other people named "Ryan North" from using his name.
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Ryan North was one of its editors, and contributed one of the stories.
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In November 2012, Ryan North launched a Kickstarter project to fund a book entitled To Be or Not to Be: That Is the Adventure, a retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet modelled on Choose Your Own Adventure novels.
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Ryan North wrote the 2021 action-adventure video game Lost in Random, published by Electronic Arts.
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Ryan North's parents are Anna and Randall North and said in an interview that he has a younger brother, Victor.
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Ryan North once hosted instructions on his website for building cardboard boxes designed to look like elements of Super Mario Bros.
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Ryan North posted about his conundrum on Twitter, leading hundreds of Twitter users to reply with suggestions on how to combine the items in his "inventory" to escape, eventually leading to success.